Catholic funerals are some of the most ornate in terms of tradition, regulation, and procedure. Although the church has loosened some of its rules in recent years (and most will allow burial alternatives like... more »

Montana Cemeteries

With a land area of 147,046 square miles, the state of Montana is the fourth largest state when it comes to size. With its abundant mineral, it is known as the Treasure State. Wyoming, Idaho, North and South Dakota are the states bordering Montana. Helena, one of the largest cities of the state is the capital. Among other large states are Butte, Miles, Havre, Kalispell, Great Falls, Missoula, Bozeman, Billings and Anaconda City. Tourism, lumber, mining and wood products are the major industries that bring income to the state.

Native Americans had been the first settlers in Montana. A variety of tribes that included the Crows, Salish, Kootenai, Blackfeet and the Cheyenne. After the trappers, Catholic missionaries were the next expeditionary who introduced agriculture to the Montana early settlers. The very first known settlement in Montana was the Saint Mary's Mission was also established by the missionaries. As more and more white people came into the area, the native Americans lost their access into their tradition of hunting until conflict grew and drove them away from the land.

Four preserved skeletons unearthed at Denver's Cheesman Park, once a cemetery
Irrigation work at Denver's Cheesman Park last Thursday and Friday unearthed the former cemetery's eery past in the form of four preserved skeletons. The coroner's office dated the bones as older than a century and will re-inter them at Mount Olivet Cemetery.http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_16493962?source=commented-news

Mount Hope and other old, rural cemeteries still seem full of life
Atop an oak-shaded hill at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., an epitaph chiseled in Latin on Col. Nathaniel Rochester's headstone whispers on the wind: "If you seek his monument, look around you." Mount Hope, America's oldest municipal park-garden ...http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2010/10/post_6.html

Grave site hunter has visited all of the presidents' cemetery plots
Searching for the grave of Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Garrett learned the location was a family cemetery at Mount Airy, a plantation built about 1760 by Col. John Tayloe near Warsaw, Va. Lee, who was a son ...http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/home/article_e5776fdd-013c-5dfd-8d26-407a2b2fcedd.html

Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term cemetery (from Greek : sleeping place) implies that the land ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery

Cemetery Records Online - Search Cemeteries
An archive of cemetery records from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world. Search for cemetery records, browse cemeteries, and contribute your ...http://www.interment.net/

Cemetery Lookup - Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and ...
Find A Grave currently contains information for over 300000 cemeteries in over 170 different countries. Find A Grave has at least a partial listing of ...http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cs

xkcd: Cemetery
[[A person is in a cemetery, near a gravestone. Other people stand around staring.]] Person: Frankly, you deserve this. You KNEW I wanted a sans-serif font, ...http://xkcd.com/736/